Windows update error - 8E5E03FB & 80070490

Bother - I was hoping to see some sort of repair having taken place, but both logs are as before.

I'll have to think about this one...

Sorry - I've been out sick most of the past 4 days... still catching up.
I'll refresh my memory and get back to you (Hopefully tonight)

Let's have a different look at the registry...

Please open Regedit
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing

and right-click on its entry - select Export
Change the Save as type entry to read 'Registry Hive Files (*.*)'
Name the file SVEXP
Save it - then close Regedit
compress the saved file, and upload the compressed file

I can't see anything wrong in that, either.
I'm confused here as to why/how the system is apparently attempting to use 8.3 format files as manifest files.

I'm out of ideas and I can only think that a repair install is the next step.


Follow the instructions in this tutorial - https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
- and they should help you get through it (it's not as difficult as it looks!)

There is no way that windows Update uses this amount of bandwidth on a regular basis - I should know as my normal bandwidth limit is 3GB/month, on a 3G dongle!
I would expect the normal usage to be around 1MB/day except when actively downloading updates.


Did you do the repair install I suggested? If not - why not?